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View of Kessler Peak from Mill D Trail.
A cabin or mine entrance behind the tailings pile marking the start of the route.
Reed and Benson Ridge from the slopes just below Carbonate Pass.
Entrance to Carbonate Pass mine. The pile of green vegetation is a pika's larder.
Cardiff Fork from Carbonate Pass.
Piece of a broken stove or boiler near mining ruins.
Ruins of a mining building at the top of Carbonate Pass.
Looking South from the summit of Kessler Peak, the ridge connects Kessler to Mount Superior (11,040 ft).
View east of Kessler, showing upper Big Cottonwood Canyon with Clayton Peak (10,721 ft) at Brighton, visible right of center.
FromLooking south from Kessler Peak across Cardiff Fork to the peaks of Alta and Snowbird. From left to right: Devil's Castle, Sugarloaf Peak, Mount Baldy, Hidden Peak (note the Snowbird tram and restaurant), American Fork Twin Peaks.
A gnarled, dead tree marks the point where the trail descends at the top of the North Route.

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